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"Generate Request Page" button is missing from Report tab in Maximo® v7.6

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"Generate Request Page" button is missing from Report tab in Maximo® v7.6

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Generating request pages is a common task among Maximo® administrators and users alike.  Users can create BIRT reports and publish them to Maximo® application, and an important part of this process is generating request pages.  Request Pages are also known as XMLs.

When a user needs to generate xmls in Maximo®, they go to Report Administration application and click the "Generate Request Page", which exists in two places:

1) on the main, List, Tab

2) on the Report tab (after user selects the individual report by clicking it)

Starting in Maximo® v7.6, the "Generate Request Page" is hidden on the Report tab for the multi-language(ML) environments. It was done to ensure that the user builds all Request Pages at once to avoid "mixed up" languages to appear in Request Pages.

When a user logs in to an ML Maximo® environment v7.6 and navigates to Report Administration application> clicks any report to display the Report tab, the "Generate Request Page" button does not appear in the Settings section:

When a user logs in to a non-ML Maximo® environment and navigates to the same spot, the button appears, as it isn't an ML environment:

If your Maximo® is ML, you can generate XMLs from the List tab only.
It was designed so that the user builds -all- Request Pages in all the languages at once avoiding any mix of languages in Request Pages."
 

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